Peer Review is a fundamental component of doing science.To help make your discussion
projects more scientifically sound, you are being called upon to put forward
your topics and ideas as well as provide needed feedback to your fellow students.

Input Your Topic or Research
Paper, and then review feedback here. Topics have to be approved by
Dr. Cummins (Marine Ecology) via this web feedback. Specific topics are first-come,
first-served.

A Note from Your Fearless Leader

Hello Marine Ecology Folks!

I'm looking forward to our course. As part of my course expectations,
each student will present a twenty minute talk on a tropical ecosystem
topic of your choice during the course. These presentations will be
at lunch time or in the evenings. You may have as little as one day's
notice!

To do a good job in your 15-20 minute presentation, you will need to
hit the library and WWW well ahead of time. We will use the World Wide
Web as our Discussion Feedback Central. You can see what other students
are talking about and I would expect that you would submit suggestions
on other peoples topics as well! In the selection of a topic, besides
submitting a title, include a synopsis of your discussion topic. What
do you plan on teaching the class? Why do you feel your topic is important?
Include an outline of your talk and at least 5 references! I will provide
feedback(everyone is welcome to contribute suggestions) via the web.

A Presentation Topic Pre-Course paper (minimum 5 pages
plus references)building from your discussion
topic, is due the first day of the course (hard copy). The paper
should be posted to the web by 6/5/2004.

Topics can include, but are not restricted to, anything related to tropical ecology,coastal
ecology, marine ecology, weather and climate,global change, oceanography
and astronomy. Some topic ideas include land use, agriculture
in southern Florida, climate change, conservation, plants (seagrass
beds, epiphytes, emergent trees, palms, understory plants); processes
(predation in coral reefs, competition, nutrient cycling, mutualism),
conservation, plate tectonics and volcanism in the Caribbean and
Bahamas, indigenous peoples of southern Florida and the Bahamas,
coral reef ecology, mangrove ecosystems, species loss, or specfic
species or family studies on fish, invertebrates, aquatic mammals,
birds, or other specific organisms (e.g. bats, lizards, freshwater
fish, mollusks,butterflies and moths, chitons, or limpets) or
other topics addressing biodiversity. Let your interests lead
the way. Do not be constrained by these suggestions! Look at what other students have talked about in previous years.
To "prime" your discussion, you may wish to provide readings in
advance to the class.

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Some Help in Your Research Efforts

Here are links to a large database, the Library of Congress, the
Miami library, and WWW search engines.

The Try it, You'll Like It Web Database--Ecology, Global Change and Much More

There are two main sources of research information on this website: (1) The first is a password protected science article database while (2) the second is a non-password protected Within-Site Search of all of the web pages on this site.

Search the PDF Science Article Database--Password Protected

The science article library contains thousands of PDF articles. It is an amazing resource. The database is password protected.

There are over 13,000 web pages on my website! There are so many pages that it can be difficult to even know what is here. Many of these web pages are student research articles, complete with literature sources. Use the Within-Site Search Engine to look for past student research work that may aid you in your research! It is not password protected.